CE-201 Youth and Children's Ministry

Children and teenagers are members of the church today, not only of tomorrow. Learn to welcome them, teach them, protect them and walk beside them.

Following Youth and Children's Ministry, this course asks what it means to put the child "in the midst" of the church: to make room, to protect and to learn. It moves from how children grow and how to teach the Bible at each age, to prayer, worship and family life, and then to teenagers, service, a safe church and children on the margins. It teaches principles; ministry skills are practised in your internship, under a mentor.

What you will study

• What Scripture says about children, and the child "in the midst"
• How children and young people grow, and why doubt is not rebellion
• Teaching the Bible at each age with a simple lesson plan
• Inviting a child to Christ without pressure
• Children in prayer and worship, and the views on children at the Lord's Table
• Families and the whole church working together
• Walking beside teenagers: identity, doubt and mentoring
• Gifts and service, a safe church, and care for children on the margins

Course materials

• Youth and Children's Ministry, a WWES textbook
• The Bible